August 28, 2011

CNN found al-Megrahi under the care of his family in his palatial Tripoli villa Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip. The cancer-stricken former Libyan intelligence officer may be the last man alive who knows precisely who in the Libya government authorized the bombing, which killed 270 people.

"We just give him oxygen. Nobody gives us any advice," his son, Khaled Elmegarhi, told CNN.... There is no doctor. There is nobody to ask. We don't have any phone line to call anybody."

Who is this "CNN"? They have a photo of a man lying in his own bed in a villa, not in a hospital, wearing an oxygen mask, and they have the statement of his son. That proves this man will never speak again? I don't believe it. We were told this guy was near death 2 years ago, when he was released from prison in Scotland. Libyans welcomed him home as a hero. Why would we accept these new assertions as true?

And "the National Transitional Council, the rebel movement that toppled Gadhafi, announced Sunday that it won't allow the dying al-Megrahi to be extradited."

"We will not give any Libyan citizen to the West," NTC Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi said.

As far as I know, we only have Moammar Gadhafi's word for it that Megrahi was "the bomber," and I think it unlikely - very unlikely - that Gadhafi would have offered up the real bomber, who might actually have known something he could talk about.

I'm not a doctor, but I have seen people who are close to death -- if you are sensitive there is a sense of weakness you can feel. The most recent photograph I saw of this terrorist Basset did not show a man close to death. It showed a man with a mask in a wheel chair who looked well nourished.

And after all Eason Jordan did to build up CNN's reputation?!?!? C'mon -- Is there any evidence that CNN would just overlook any genuine abuses or misreport the news just to ensure they maintain a presence in a foreign country?

Diplomatically this guy is a small fry, and may not be worth the effort to bring to the United States. I mean the United Kingdom let him go over oil deals. Will we take him out of Libya at the lost of oil deals?